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A family man is drafted to fight in a future war where the fate of humanity relies on his ability to confront the past. A family man is drafted to fight in a future war where the fate of humanity relies on his ability to confront the past. A family man is drafted to fight in a future war where the fate of humanity relies on his ability to confront the past.

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  • Trivia This film was made by Paramount Pictures for a theatrical release but due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Paramount sold the film to Amazon Prime Video for $200 million.
  • Goofs The following goof was marked as incorrect: "The soldiers from 2051 come from a time when 99.99% of the human population is dead and the war is nearly lost. Nevertheless, the governments from the present devote tremendous resources to sending millions of drafted civilians to 2051 to die almost certain deaths. There is no discussion of using the knowledge from the future to fight the impending war differently and prevent human extinction. Only at the end does it seem to occur to anyone to send the toxin back in time to change the future." Reason for it being incorrect was said to be: "However, it is possible to develop the toxin only with a female specimen available, i.e. in the future, and it cannot be possible to bring her back in the present for studies." Still, this does not explain why no effort was taken in 2022 to use knowledge from 2051 to alter the course of history.

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  • Crazy credits Alien sounds can be heard at the end of the credits.
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  • Soundtracks Christmas Wrapping Written by Chris Butler (as Christopher Butler) Performed by The Waitresses Courtesy of Republic Records Under License from Universal Music Enterprises

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The Tomorrow War is now streaming on Amazon Prime, just in time for the 4th of July weekend, because nothing says patriotism like a nonsensical sci-fi action movie.

Starring Chris Pratt in perhaps the final stage of his transition to a straight-man action hero, this movie was originally meant to open in theaters last December. But thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, Paramount Pictures sold the film to Amazon Studios. The good news for you is that means you can now stream The Tomorrow War from the comfort of your own home, with full access to Google when you get a bit lost in the film’s ridiculous plot.

No judgment! Even without a few beers from the 4th of July celebrations, The Tomorrow War  can be hard to follow. Never fear, because Decider is here to help. Read on for The Tomorrow War plot summary and The Tomorrow War ending, explained.

WHAT IS THE TOMORROW WAR PLOT?

Dan Forester is a veteran-turned-high-school-teacher who dreams of someday being a big shot scientist. His plans are interrupted, however, when a group of time travelers arrive and warn humankind that they will be wiped out, 30 years in the future. Civilians are drafted to fight in a future war against a mysterious race of monsters called “the white spikes.”  A time-travel device strapped to their arm will send the civilians to the year 2051 for exactly seven days of military service and then zap them back to the present day. But the only people who can get sent back are ones who are already dead in 2051—and apparently, that includes Dan. After a failed visit to his dad (J. K. Simmons )—an engineer who might have been able to help Dan evade the draft if only Dan could stand to accept his father’s help—Dan promises his wife Emmy (Betty Gilpin) and his young daughter Muri (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) that he will be back.

Dan and a team of recruits get sent to the year 2051 to rescue a group of researchers who are searching for a scientific solution to the invasion. One thing leads to another, and Dan ends up working side-by-side with his grown-up daughter Muri (now played by Yvonne Strahovski). Muri tells Dan that in her past, Dan divorces his wife, and leaves his family, because he was unsatisfied with his life. Then he dies in a car accident when Muri is 16 years old.

In the future, Dan and Muri develop a “toxin,” which is basically a serum that will kill all of the monsters. Muri tells Dan to take the toxin back to his time, mass-produce it, and kill all the monsters before the war even begins. Dan agrees, but he promises to come back to 2051 to save this version of Muri after he does. Unfortunately, that version of Muri gets eaten by a monster almost immediately in the next scene. David’s seven days of service are up, so he zaps back into the present day. He’s informed that the jump link has been cut off and that they are no longer able to travel to the future. Now he has to somehow find where and when the monsters first arrived on earth, and kill them before the war can begin.

WHAT IS THE TOMORROW WAR ENDING EXPLAINED?

In a bit of “OK, sure,” plotting, Dan—with the help of a nerdy teenager who loves volcanoes—traces some volcanic ash from under the creature’s claws to “the Millennium Eruption” from 946 AD, a huge eruption that blew ash all over the world, which can still be found buried deep in glaciers. Dan realizes that this means that the monsters must have dug up from the depths of the earth, meaning they are not aliens. They are ancient monsters who have been on the earth the whole time, and eventually were thawed out, thanks to global warming.

Dan recruits his father to pilot an illegal plane to a Russian glacier where he believes the monsters are frozen. Once on the glacier, they find an alien spaceship that crashed with a bunch of frozen aliens who are not white spikes. Based on essentially nothing, Dan concludes that these more intelligent aliens brought the white spikes here as either cattle or planet-clearing weapons. So… they are aliens after all!

The humans inject the aliens with the toxins, and it seems to work—they die.  Unfortunately, a group of white spikes wakes up before the humans can inject all of them. The team manages to blow up all of the white spikes except for one, a female, who gets away. But after an epic showdown, Dan kills the last white spike for good. Dan and his father go home, and Dan finally lets his father meet his granddaughter.

In a voice-over narration in the film’s final scene, Dan says that he never tells his daughter about the seven days he spent with her in a future that will never happen. “I’m never gonna leave her. I will never leave this family,” he says. Though it is not explicitly shown, we can guess that this means Dan will not divorce his wife and die in a car crash, the way that future-Muri remembered. He successfully changed the future.

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Hi, this is Barry and welcome to my site. The Tomorrow War is a 2021 science-fiction action thriller directed by Chris McKay that sports time travel. In the future, Earth is attacked by aliens leading to an extinction-level event of all life on the planet. Future humans arrive in the present asking for military help to win their war, and the present agrees. Getting vibes of Edge Of Tomorrow ? The cast has Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski and a very ripped J.K. Simmons, to name a few. Where there is time travel , there is trouble. So, here’s the plot and ending of the movie The Tomorrow War explained; spoilers ahead.

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Here are links to the key aspects of the movie:

  • – The White Spikes Explained
  • – The Grandfather Paradox
  • – Timeline 1: Explained
  • – How does Dan die?
  • – Jumplink and Time Jumps Explained
  • – Fighting the aliens in 2051
  • – Caging the beast
  • – Change the past!
  • – Timeline 2: Explained
  • – Ending Explained: Saving The World
  • – Timeline Diagrams, Paradoxes and Plot Holes

The Tomorrow War: Where did the aliens come from? The White Spikes Explained

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The White Spikes are lab-grown mindless planet-cleansing weapons to whom living beings are only food. At some point in time before 946 A.D, an alien race crashlanded on Earth in Russia. The crew died on impact; however, their cargo of the White Spikes survived. These creatures stayed in their cocoons for over a thousand years. Eventually, in 2048, they clawed their way out because the ice around them melted, thanks to global warming. No radars caught the alien ship landing because they got to Earth over a millennium ago.

The Grandfather Paradox

This is one of the oldest adversaries for any time-travel story. Here’s why, if a person goes back in time when her grandfather is a young boy and kills him, this would mean she is not ever born. The paradox kicks in when we ask the question, “so who killed the grandfather? Nobody?” then he must be alive only to be killed by his granddaughter… and so on.

The Tomorrow War introduces the same old classic Grandfather Paradox because of what Dan and Muri do. To avoid that situation, I’m going to narrate the plot using multiple timelines. The movie has primarily two intertwined timelines: 

  • Timeline-1, with the war.
  • Timeline-2 without the war. 

The present (as in 2022-23) that we see is Timeline-2, and the future (2050-51) is Timeline-1. Time travel happens between these two timelines. Let’s now go through the story one timeline at a time. 

The Tomorrow War Explained: Timeline 1

While not shown in the film, in Timeline-1, Dan leads an unhappy life. After a few years, he eventually leaves his family, which breaks Emmy’s (his wife) and Muri’s (his daughter) hearts. In Timeline-1, Dan does not go to fight in the future war. I’m sure you’re wondering what on earth I’m talking about. Again, the opening of the movie that we see is from Timeline 2, not Timeline 1. We’ll get to Timeline-2 in a bit; please bear with me.

The Tomorrow War: How does Dan die?

Dan dies in a car crash on October 13, 2030, in Timeline 1, when Muri is 16 years old. Emmy eventually dies of unknown reasons, and Muri grows old to get a doctorate in biotechnology and ultimately creates R-Force. 

The Tomorrow War: Jumplink and Time Jumps Explained

The future establishes a wormhole that can transport people over a fixed period of about 30 years. If someone jumps from 2022 to 2052 and stays there for a year and then jumps back, they return to 2023. This is the meaning of the “two rafts” explanation that the young major gives. It’s important to note that these jumps are happening between two different timelines. 

Based on what rules are people selected to go to the future?

The primary selection criterion is that the person travelling should have died before the point of the time jump in the future. This is done to avoid a person running into their older future selves that could cause a paradox. In Dan’s case, he would die in 2030, so he will not be around in 2051, and this is the case with everyone else selected for the mission. The future soldiers who have arrived are very young and are chosen that way because they would not yet be born in the present. 

Fighting the aliens in 2051

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The output coordinates are messed up, and instead of the beach, the time jumpers are dropped hundreds of feet over the city. Ouch. Most people fall to their deaths except for a small group that lands in a terrace swimming pool. Had Dan been one of the unfortunate ones to land on the street, it would have been a rather short film.

Colonel Forester reaches out to and tells Dan and team to rescue a team of scientists and fetch a set of vials critical to killing the aliens. They reach the building to realize the scientists have been killed, but Dan locates the vials. The White Spikes attack and only Dan, Charlie and Dorian make it back to the camp alive.

Dan meets Colonel Forester and realizes she is Muri but is emotionally distant. She explains that the vials Dan retrieved are toxins that can kill the male aliens, but the female is resilient to it. They head to one of the locations with a female White Spike to capture it.

Caging the beast

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After a lot of struggle, the team, Muri and Dan, manage to cage the female White Spike and take it over to the base. On the way, Muri tells Dan all about how he left and then died in a car crash. 

Back at the lab, they sedate the alien, and Muri draws samples from it to synthesize a toxin that can beat the female immune system. This toxin can potentially be weaponized and used to kill all the White Spikes. However, given there is hardly any access to factories, Muri doesn’t know how to mass-produce and administer the toxin to all the White Spikes in the little time they have left. 

Change the past!

Muri tells Dan that the only hope is for him to take the toxin back with him to 2023 and give it to the authorities, who can weaponize it and be ready when the aliens land. Dan says he’ll do it and protect his own timeline, but he also promises he’ll bring back stock to Muri’s timeline and save her too. 

Before anything, hordes of male aliens attack the base to save their queen. Muri and Dan make a run for it, but Muri gets stabbed and taken down by a White Spike. Dan jumps in a desperate attempt to … I’m not really sure what he planned to do after leaping off. Lucky for him, his time runs out, and he jumps back to the present to his own timeline (Timeline-2). 

The Tomorrow War Explained: Timeline 2

Right, so this is where the movie begins. In 2022, Dan is in a teaching job he considers to be a dead-end. His applications to other jobs don’t pan out. At the 2022 Football World Cup, future soldiers from Timeline-1 show up asking for help fighting the aliens. The world agrees, and they set up Jumplinks to get people over to the future to help with the war.

Dan’s turn eventually arrives because, according to the future people’s information, Dan dies by 2030. But the information they have is on Dan from Timeline-1. This is Dan from Timeline-2, not the same guy. Anyway, this doesn’t matter much.

After working with Muri in the future of Timeline-1, Dan returns back to the present of Timeline-2 with the toxin. But the Jumplink is destroyed and no one can go back to Timeline-2 again. In any case, Muri was consumed by a pack of hungry White Spikes.

The Tomorrow War Ending Explained: Saving The World

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The ending of The Tomorrow War reveals that the White Spikes didn’t land on Earth in 2048 but arrived over a thousand years ago when they were trapped under the ice and eventually surfaced when the ice melted in 2048, explaining why no radar or satellite imaging caught their arrival.

By analyzing the claw that Dorian has, they find out there is volcanic ash from China on the claw even though the aliens showed up in Russia. They talk to the volcano-kid from Dan’s boring class to learn that a volcano once erupted in 946 A.D. that was so tremendous that the ash spread all the way to Russia, amongst other parts of the world. They follow the ash trail to a glacier in Russia. 

The government refuses to help, and just like that, Dan’s dad loads the team and flies them undetected into Russian airspace to the glacier, where they find the ship’s location after their compasses go crazy. They blow up the ice and descend to find the spaceship. They take matters into their own hands and almost unleash Armageddon in the present time by trying to inject and kill a few of the White Spikes in their cocoons which causes the rest to wake up and attack. Dorian blows himself and most of the team to take out all the male aliens, but one female makes a run for it.

Dan and his father find it, and after a lot of bullets, toxin vials, impaling, fist fighting, and requesting it to die, they successfully get the alien to fall over and become mulch. The world is saved, Dan goes back to his family and promises he’ll never leave them. The alien war in Timeline-2 is averted; sadly, Timeline-1’s humans do perish.

The Tomorrow War: Timeline Diagrams, Paradoxes and Plot Holes

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I’ve taken the liberty to claim that there are two timelines simply because we’re told of two totally different sets of events that cannot coexist. While movies like  Avengers: Endgame  and  Primer explicitly call out multiple timelines, The Tomorrow War does not. I believe, according to the filmmakers, there is just one timeline. The first time around, there was a war, and Dan returns with the toxin to stop that from happening. And that is where the Grandfather Paradox would swoop with a cinematic belly-punch.

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Here’s the problem if we have only one timeline. Dan goes to the future and shows up with a Toxin. He and his team then use Dorian’s claw to find and take down the entire species of the White Spikes. No war, so in 2050, no time-travellers would need to go back seeking help. Dorian’s claw belongs to a White Spike from the future, which now would not exist. Muri doesn’t grow old to become a soldier who experiments with White Spikes to synthesize the toxin. So, the boxes of toxins can’t exist because they were never synthesized. See what happened there? The Grandfather Paradox.

That’s all I’ve got. What did you think about The Tomorrow War and its ending? Drop a comment, let’s discuss.

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The Tomorrow War Ending Explained: What Happens And What It Means

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Perhaps considering that The Tomorrow War is a movie about time travel, it's not that weird that a movie that takes place largely at Christmas time opened in the middle of the summer. Of course, the film was delayed from its original holiday release in 2020, to become one of the big summer 2021 movies while also releasing on Amazon Prime Video rather than in theaters. However, while the screen may be smaller than intended, the action is not. The movie is as big a science fiction action blockbuster as we've seen recently, and everything about the film is just as big, and that includes The Tomorrow War ending.

Since Chris Pratt 's The Tomorrow War is a time travel movie, in which humans from the future come back in time to recruit people to fight in a last ditch effort to save the entire world from an alien threat, it wouldn't be too surprising if things got a little confusing. Time travel tends to do that. And so, let's break down the ending of The Tomorrow War and what it all means to the future of humanity.

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How The Tomorrow War Ends

The Tomorrow War follows Dan Forester ( Chris Pratt ) as he gets drafted into the future war against vicious aliens. While there, he meets his own daughter Muri, now all grown up ( Yvonne Stahovski ) and a colonel in the military, and he tries to help her find a way to destroy the aliens by discovering a toxin capable of killing them.

They are successful in finding a solution to the alien threat, and Dan is going to take the toxin back home so that it can be mass produced before the aliens actually arrive on earth, potentially preventing the entire war from ever happening. Unfortunately, the stakes are raised when Dan watches Muri die at the hands of the alien creatures before being sent home.

When Dan returns, the link to the future has closed, causing humanity to have a bit of a freak out. Nobody is quite sure what to do and concerns are focused on the here and now and not the future, so Dan tries to figure out where the aliens came from so humanity can be waiting with its killer toxin when they do. However, in trying to figure out exactly when the aliens arrive on earth, and thanks to a very helpful suggestion from his wife, Dan and his friends eventually discover that the aliens have been on earth all along.

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Evidence is discovered that the alien threat landed on earth in the planet's distant past, and somehow became frozen in a glacier in Russia. Eventually, global warming will cause glacial melt to the point that the creatures will thaw out, and then the war will begin. Nobody in a position of authority is willing to support his plan so Dan enlists his estranged father ( J.K. Simmons ), because he has a plane, to help get them to Russia and check it out.

Eventually Dan and a small squad he met on his future deployment discover the alien spaceship. It crash landed on earth and was frozen over. More interestingly, it's discovered that the viscous aliens, the "white spikes" as they're called, are actually a biological weapon. They were bred by another alien race, apparently with the specific purpose of destroying life on other planets.

In the end, Dan's team blows up the alien ship, with many sacrificing themselves in the blast, but there are simply too many of the creatures to take out with the toxin they have. One female escapes the blast, and eventually Dan and his father are able to track it down and destroy it. The future appears to be saved and the aliens have been defeated.

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What The Ending Means For Chris Pratt's Character And His Family

While the more immediate stakes of The Tomorrow War surround saving the human race from extinction, for Chris Pratt's character, it's ultimately about his family. His ultimate goal is to save his daughter's future, and if the rest of the world gets saved along with it, so be it.

Of course, things get a little interesting in that regard, when Dan Forester learns about his own future from his grown up daughter. The way time travel works in The Tomorrow War is that, despite having traveled to the future from his daughter's past, his adult daughter's memories are of an original timeline, what would have happened if the time travel had never occurred. In that timeline, we learn that Dan eventually divorced his wife and left his family, and ultimately died young in a car accident.

While we never learn the exact causes of Dan's decisions, the implication is that Dan feels he never accomplished the great things he felt he should have been able to do, that perhaps he saw himself as a failure. This idea is especially difficult for Dan to accept, because he cut ties with his own father after he also walked away from his family. His dad explains that at one point he was suffering from PTSD following the Vietnam War, and felt that leaving was preferable to staying and possibly doing something terrible.

Dan's victory against the aliens, something that did not happen in his daughter's original timeline, combined with his own knowledge of what he did in that timeline, have seemingly led him to a different place. Dan has reconciled with his own father, and he promises he will not leave his family. And, if Dan truly felt he needed to accomplish something great to have value, he's literally saved the world.

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How Does The Tomorrow War Really End?

It looks like everything is about as close to "happily ever after" as they can get for Chris Pratt's character in The Tomorrow War . The war will never happen in the future. Muri Forester will, therefore, not die at the hands of the aliens. And, because the future will no longer progress as it did "originally," it's implied that Dan Forester will not leave his family in the future, so he will not die while his daughter is still a teenager.

Except we can't really know that for sure. Since we never really understand the circumstances of Dan leaving, we can't be sure that they still won't happen. What's more, the earth is still going to have to deal with having been involved in the future war, and all the lives that were lost, even though it won't be happening in the future. There's certainly no guarantee that Dan won't be dealing with his own PTSD after what he went through, which could make things difficult for his family.

In the end, not knowing what the future holds is perhaps all anybody can hope for. The worst possible future will not happen, and for the rest, maybe simply being aware of the possibilities will help prevent them from taking place.

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Chris Pratt took all the clout and popularity he amassed from starring in the “ Jurassic World ” and “ Guardians of the Galaxy ” franchises and used them to make ... “The Tomorrow War,” a blandly derivative and overlong sci-fi thriller.

Originally scheduled pre-pandemic to premiere in theaters, it’s now arriving on streaming through Amazon Prime Video, but it’s hard to imagine that watching this on the big screen would have improved the experience significantly. With his first live-action feature, “The LEGO Batman Movie” director Chris McKay stitches together several overly familiar elements in unremarkable fashion: a bit of time travel, a horde of relentless alien invaders, a rag-tag band coming together to stop them, some unresolved father-son issues and a few misfit sidekicks to provide comic relief. The supposedly original script from writer Zach Dean offers very little that’s innovative or inspired.

Amid all this hackneyed madness is Pratt, straining to tap into dramatic chops he simply doesn’t have. He can be wildly charismatic zipping through the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the cocky Peter Quill, or he can be an engaging action hero handling dinosaurs as the brave Owen Grady. He’s also an infectious charmer in “The LEGO Movie” series as the voice of sunny Emmet Brickowski. But playing a bland suburban dad struggling to save his family—and all of humanity—isn’t Pratt’s strong suit. It gives him no room to swagger.

And then once he gets thrown into the mayhem of jumping forward in time to stop the marauding aliens, his frequent wide-eyed, mouth-agape expression inadvertently calls to mind that famous Pratt meme from his pre-hunky days on NBC’s “Parks and Recreation.” Then again, we’d probably all react that way to being thrown 30 years into the future and then dropped from the sky into a high-rise rooftop swimming pool, as Pratt’s character is in the film’s opening sequence.

Human visitors from the year 2051 have traveled back in time to the present day to warn us that an alien invasion has besieged Earth, and civilians must leap ahead three decades to help fight them—that’s how decimated the population has become. Among them is Pratt’s Dan Forester, a mild-mannered high school science teacher and Iraq war veteran. While he’s reluctant to leave his wife (an underused Betty Gilpin ) and bright, nine-year-old daughter (the self-possessed Ryan Kiera Armstrong ), he’s also proclaimed at the film’s start: “I am meant to do something special with my life,” as so many mediocre, middle-aged white men have before him. This is that thing.

Before he gets zapped, though, he must confront his estranged father (a seriously buff J.K. Simmons), which provides an opportunity for overacting and an indication of the histrionics to come. And as he’s getting fitted with the armband do-hickey that will transport him to the future for his week-long tour of duty, he learns he’s going to die in seven years anyway. Among the other soldiers in his troop are the nervous tech nerd Charlie ( Sam Richardson of “Veep”) and the wisecracking weirdo Norah ( Mary Lynn Rajskub ). There’s not much to any of these characters.

What they’re all forced to confront upon arrival, whether they’re ready or not, is an army of albino creatures known as White Spikes. They scamper and gnash, have tentacles that strangle and slash, and they make a staccato growl like the sound you hear in “ Predator .” They also look extremely cheesy, either individually or en masse. There’s something jumpy not only about the way they move but also about how the giant action scenes are edited. They have a slick, incessant mania to them that’s distancing. It certainly doesn’t help that everything is smothered with a barrage of gunfire and Lorne Balfe ’s overwhelming score.

Through it all, Pratt runs, grunts, shoots or yells “Nooo!” in slow motion. A lot. And that’s some of his more believable work here. Less impressive are his scenes with Yvonne Strahovski as the no-nonsense colonel delivering orders; she connects with him, in part, because of his military background. The “Handmaid’s Tale” standout is also the actor who emerges the most unscathed from this slog, delivering clunky, expository dialogue within this wild setting with surprising understatement. Pratt, however, seems outmatched opposite her.

In the last half-hour, “The Tomorrow War” finally gives in completely to its “ Alien ” influences, with ear-splitting shrieks and blood and yellow-green fluids squishing and spewing everywhere. It’s as if a ballpark condiment bar became sentient and turned evil. This is the point at which things finally teeter over into so-bad-it’s-good territory, but by then, it’s too late. And anyway, in the future, no one can hear you scream.

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It is never good news when a phalanx of armed, balaclava-wearing dudes falls from the sky in the middle of a World Cup soccer game.

“We are you 30 years in the future,” their leader announces to the stunned crowd. “You are our last hope.” Heeding the call is a high school biology teacher named Dan Forester (Chris Pratt). Dan has a doting wife (Betty Gilpin), an adoring young daughter (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) and — because action heroes rarely embark on wholesale slaughter without some unhealed psychological hurt — the requisite estranged father (J.K. Simmons).

Dan also believes that his life has a special purpose, and so does “The Tomorrow War,” Chris McKay’s time-travel spectacle in which clichés rain as fast and as furiously as bullets. In 2051, an alien civilization is in the process of gobbling up humanity, requiring a worldwide draft of present-day citizens who will “jump” into the future to join the war effort. This process — which resembles the Rapture, except the destination is hell instead of heaven — dumps the terrified conscripts on a post-apocalyptic Miami beach. From there, Dan and a handful of confreres (including an amusing Sam Richardson and Mary Lynn Rajskub) battle a welter of special effects to reach an undersea laboratory where a military scientist (Yvonne Strahovski) is developing an alien-fighting toxin.

Sucking ideas from across the sci-fi spectrum — “Alien,” “Edge of Tomorrow,” “Starship Troopers,” “Jumper,” I could go on — Zach Dean’s screenplay grows more ludicrous by the minute. People are launched into the mayhem without basic training (Richardson’s character can’t even load a gun). And when saving the world requires the assistance of a volcanologist, the sole option is a 12-year-old boy. (Dean does deserve credit, though, for a plot that both hints at global warming and insists scientists will be our salvation.)

As for the extraterrestrials, we’re almost an hour in before we see one: Bleached, tentacled and maximally toothy, they’re so exhaustingly aggressive it’s a relief to learn that, like the Creator, they’re only active for six days a week. That’s about as long as this 140-minute assault feels, with its crude dialogue (“We are food, and they are hungry”), overexcited score and characters so formulaic they might as well be cereal-box figurines. “The Tomorrow War” is betting its flash will blind us to its vacuity. And why not? It worked for “Avatar.”

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Inspiring people to dream of destinations to visit and  Travel Tomorrow , when it is safe to do so, is the message behind a newly launched CNN campaign which was devised for the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO).

The 60 second film, which runs on CNN International, takes viewers around the world, reminding them of the wonders beyond their neighbourhoods.  Travel Tomorrow  aims to drive imagination for future trips featuring adventure, business, culture, family and friends.

Produced by Create – CNN International Commercial’s (CNNIC) in-house creative studio – the film features eight different countries and conveys optimism for prospective journeys. Recognising that travellers of the world have been grounded by Covid-19 and are missing exploring different locations and meeting new faces as they did pre-crisis, it highlights the importance of holding on to hope of travelling when the time is right, and encourages viewers to be enthusiastic about the places and people that they will soon be able to visit, in line with World Health Organisation (WHO) guidance. This also reflects the UNWTO’s messaging throughout the pandemic.

“Travel and tourism is by far one of the most affected sectors as a result of this pandemic. Our commitment to supporting this industry is based on our work over many years with the UNWTO, its members around the world and other travel and tourism destinations. It is important to share this responsible yet aspirational message with CNN’s global audience, reminding people that while many have to stay home today, to not stop dreaming about where they want to travel to tomorrow.”  Rani Raad, President, CNN Worldwide Commercial .

“In these challenging times we must all play our part – staying home today, supporting the efforts of the global healthcare community in combating COVID19 – so that we can #TravelTomorrow. But this does not mean we should stop dreaming about the places we will one day travel to. I am excited by this new initiative created by CNN, a valued partner of the UNWTO, to keep the world connected to the people and places that wait for us when we can once again enjoy the gift of travel – a sector that will  be critical to global economic recovery, unity and opportunity.” Zurab Pololikashvili, Secretary General of the UNWTO .

Inspiring people to dream of destinations to visit & #TravelTomorrow , once it is deemed safe, is the message in a new @CNNCreate campaign for @UNWTO . The film encourages imagination of future trips including adventure, business, culture, family & friends https://t.co/jJk3mV8q3T pic.twitter.com/2wBajlguSW — CNN International PR (@cnnipr) May 26, 2020

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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the world to a standstill. Tourism has been the hardest hit of all economic sectors, and in many places the most vulnerable members of society will suffer the most.

However, tourism has shown an unparalleled ability to recover from crisis. Furthermore, the sector is uniquely positioned to lead wider societal recovery, driving economic growth, creating jobs and transforming lives.

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To ensure the core values of tourism live on, UNWTO has called on the global community to start looking to the future and has convened the Global Tourism Crisis Committee.

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This month’s full Pink Moon will dazzle stargazers tomorrow night (April 23).

The Pink Moon will be on full and best display at exactly 7:49 PM ET tomorrow. But from Earth, we likely won’t notice that it’s at its peak. According to NASA, the moon will look full for three days. So from Monday through Thursday, we’ll all notice a shockingly bright and round moon in the sky.

Unfortunately, the full moon will not look pink as the name suggests. Instead, it will be golden or orange as it usually is.

NASA explained that the term “Pink Moon” originated from Native Americans who associated the monthly moon with the spring flowers Phlox subulata, more commonly known as moss phlox or creeping phlox. The flowers can bloom in multiple colors, but they’re most often a bright pink. And they start popping up in April.

The Maine Farmers’ Almanac began referring to full moons by their Indian names in the 1930s. Pink Moon comes from tribes in the eastern United States. Tribes in other parts of the country dubbed the moon Egg Moon, Fish Moon, or Sprouting Grass Moon.

Some believe the springtime pink full moon is a symbol of letting go. And, just as the season brings rebirth and renewal to nature, it should push us into fresh starts of our own.

Those who take a moment to marvel at the moon may also notice another cosmic spectacle, the Lyrid meteor showe r. While Saturday and Sunday were the best nights to watch for shooting starts, the show will continue for another week.

The meteor shower happens when Earth passes through the C/1861 G1 Thatcher debris field. During the peak nights, it was possible to see up to 100 meteors an hour, but on typical nights, people will see around 10 to 20 per hour. However, the light from the full moon will make the shooting stars less visible.

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Travel fell sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic—airline revenues dropped by 60 percent in 2020, and air travel and tourism are not expected to return to 2019 levels before 2024. 1 “ Back to the future? Airline sector poised for change post-COVID-19 ,” McKinsey, April 2, 2021; “ What will it take to go from ‘travel shock’ to surge? ” McKinsey, November 23, 2021. While this downturn is worrisome, it is likely to be temporary. McKinsey’s latest survey of more than 5,500 air travelers around the world shows that the aviation industry faces an even bigger challenge: sustainability.

The survey results indicate emerging trends in passenger priorities:

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We asked about 5,500 people in 13 countries, half of them women, to answer 36 questions in July 2021. Each had taken one or more flights in the previous 12 months. More than 25 percent took at least half of their flights for business reasons; 5 percent had taken more than eight flights in the previous 24 months. They ranged in age from 18 to over 75 and hailed from the US and Canada, the UK, Sweden, Spain, Poland, Germany, Saudi Arabia, India, China, Japan, Australia, and Brazil.

Topics included concerns about climate change and carbon emissions, carbon reduction measures, and factors influencing tourism stays and activities.

We compared the results to those of a survey asking the same questions that we conducted in July 2019.

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  • Travelers continue to prioritize price and connections over sustainability in booking decisions, for now. This may be partly because no airline has built a business system or brand promise on sustainability. Also, some consumers may currently be less concerned about their own impact because they’re flying less frequently in the pandemic. That said, almost 40 percent of travelers globally are now willing to pay at least two percent more for carbon-neutral tickets, or about $20 for a $1,000 round-trip, and 36 percent plan to fly less to reduce their climate impact.
  • Attitudes and preferences vary widely among countries and customer segments. Around 60 percent of travelers in Spain are willing to pay more for carbon-neutral flights, for example, compared to nine percent in India and two percent in Japan.

This article outlines steps that airlines, airports, and their suppliers could take to respond to changing attitudes and preferences. The survey findings suggest that airlines may need to begin with gaining a deeper understanding of changes across heterogenous customer segments and geographies. With those insights in hand, they could tailor their communications, products, and services to differentiate their brands, build awareness among each passenger segment, and better connect with customers.

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The survey findings point to fundamental and ongoing changes in consumer behavior.

After a decade of steady growth in passenger traffic, air travel was hit hard by the pandemic. International air travel immediately fell by almost 100 percent, and overall bookings declined by more than 60 percent for 2020, according to Airports Council International. At the time of writing, revenue passenger miles have returned to close to pre-pandemic levels in the United States, but still lag behind in other markets. 2 “COVID-19: October 2021 traffic data,” International Air Transport Association (IATA), December 8, 2021. In its October 2021 report, before the Omicron variant emerged, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) forecast that the industry’s losses would be around $52 billion in 2021 and $12 billion in 2022. 3 “Economic performance of the airline industry,” IATA, October 4, 2021.

Furthermore, travelers’ preferences and behaviors have changed sharply during the pandemic, particularly around health and safety requirements. An Ipsos survey for the World Economic Forum found that, on average, three in four adults across 28 countries agreed that COVID-19 vaccine passports should be required of travelers to enter their country and that they would be effective in making travel and large events safe. 4 “Global public backs COVID-19 vaccine passports for international travel,” Ipsos, April 28, 2021. And a 2021 survey by Expedia Group found that people buying plane tickets now care more about health, safety, and flexibility than previously. But, there is also renewed interest in travel as nearly one in five travelers expected travel to be the thing they spent the most on in 2021, one in three had larger travel budgets for the year, and many were looking for new experiences such as once-in-a-lifetime trips. 5 “New research: How travelers are making decisions for the second half of 2021,” Skift, August 26, 2021.

Comparing McKinsey’s 2019 and 2021 survey results, sustainability remains a priority as respondents show similar levels of concern about climate change, continue to believe that aviation must become carbon neutral, and want their governments to step in to reduce airline emissions. Some changes were more striking. The share of respondents who say they plan to fly less to minimize their environmental impact rose five percentage points to 36 percent. In 2021 half of all respondents said they want to fly less after the pandemic. Changes in opinion varied across markets. Passengers in the UK, US, and Saudi Arabia, for example, were more likely to feel “flygskam,” (shame about flying) while those in Spain, Poland, and Australia felt significantly less guilty about flying.

It is worth tracking these trends in each market and demographic, because passengers’ experiences and opinions are increasingly relevant: passengers spend far more time online, increasingly trust each other’s recommendations more than traditional marketing, and can reshape brand perceptions faster than ever. 6 “ Understanding the ever-evolving, always-surprising consumer ,” McKinsey, August 31, 2021. In some markets consumers may reward airlines that meet rising demands for environmental sustainability—and punish those who fall behind.

The Australian airline Qantas may be acting on a similar belief. In November 2021, it announced a new “green tier” in its loyalty program. The initiative, based on feedback from passengers, is “designed to encourage, and recognize the airline’s 13 million frequent flyers for doing things like offsetting their flights, staying in eco-hotels, walking to work, and installing solar panels at home”. Qantas states that it is one of the largest private-sector buyers of Australian carbon credits, and it will use program funds to support more conservation and environmental projects. 7 “Qantas frequent flyers to be rewarded for being sustainable,” Qantas media release, November 26,, 2021. “A look at how people around the world view climate change,” Pew Research April 18, 2019. Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation climate change survey, July 9 to August 5, 2019.

Given these shifting trends, it may be helpful for all industry stakeholders to maintain a deep and up-to-date understanding of consumer segments in each market that they serve. Three main findings about today’s travelers emerged from the 2021 survey:

Finding 1: Most travelers now have concerns about climate change and carbon emissions—and many are prepared to act on these concerns

Concern about carbon emissions from aviation did not rise much during the pandemic, probably in part because air travel declined so sharply. About 56 percent of respondents said they were worried about climate change, and 54 percent said aviation should “definitely become carbon neutral” in the future.

While these numbers have increased only one or two percentage points since 2019, the share of respondents who rank CO 2 emissions as their top concern about aviation—ahead of concerns such as noise pollution and mass tourism—rose by nine percentage points to 34 percent. More than 30 percent of respondents have paid to offset their CO2 emissions from air travel.

Finding 2: Price and connections still matter much more than emissions to most travelers

Of the nine major factors travelers consider when booking a flight, carbon emissions consistently rank as sixth-most important across customer segments. This may be partly because most airline marketing centers around low cost or superior service, and pricing and revenue management are targeted at price and best connection. Most booking websites allow prospective travelers to sort by price and number of connections, for example, but not by carbon footprint. Google Flights has made a first step, showing average CO2 emissions per flight and improving transparency for travelers.

Travelers might begin to make different choices if emissions featured more prominently in the booking process—particularly if more airlines offered CO 2 reduction measures that delivered genuine environmental impact.

Finding 3: Attitudes vary widely by demographics and geography

Beliefs about the seriousness of climate change, and how to respond to it, vary across demographics and geographies (exhibit). Although younger people are generally more aware of the predicted consequences of climate change, older cohorts have become more concerned about climate change since the 2019 survey. In some countries, large majorities see climate change as a major threat, while that represents a minority view in other countries.

The survey shows that frequent travelers feel slightly more shame about flying than other respondents—37 percent compared to 30 percent—but show a much lower intention to reduce their air travel to minimize their climate impact, at 19 percent compared to 38 percent.

According to Pew Research, more than 80 percent of people in Greece, Spain, France, and South Korea believe climate change is a major threat, compared to around 40 percent of those in Russia, Nigeria, and Israel. 8 “A look at how people around the world view climate change,” Pew Research April 18, 2019. According to 2019 polling by the Washington Post and Kaiser Family Foundation, more than three-quarters of Americans believe it represents a major problem or a crisis—but fewer than half are willing to pay to help address it. 9 Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation climate change survey, July 9 to August 5, 2019.

These numbers may change quickly in the next few years as discussions about climate change become less abstract as oceans rise and storms, forest fires, and droughts become more severe. Instead of being one topic of concern among many, millions more people around the world may come to see climate change as today’s greatest challenge.

This shift seems to be apparent in government action, especially in mature economies. The US, for example, announced its intention to exit the Paris Agreement in June 2017 but pledged to rejoin in April 2021. 10 “Climate change: US formally withdraws from Paris agreement,” BBC, November 4, 2020; “President Biden sets 2030 greenhouse gas pollution reduction target,” White House fact sheet, April 22, 2021. And in September, the White House set a goal for the country to produce 3 billion gallons of sustainable aircraft fuel annually by 2030—up from about 4.5 million gallons produced in the US in 2020—which would cut carbon emissions from flying by 20 percent compared with taking no action. 11 “Biden administration advances the future of sustainable fuels in American aviation,” White House fact sheet, September 9, 2021.

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How the industry can be cleared for takeoff.

Travelers’ attitudes and behaviors appear to be in flux, and will likely continue to change. Depending on the world’s progress in preventing and treating COVID-19, the industry will likely take at least a couple of years to recover from the downdrafts caused by the pandemic.

In this unique moment in aviation history, airlines may be able to communicate in new ways to inspire passengers to join the fight against climate change. Based on McKinsey’s experience in aviation and other industries around the world, there may be an opportunity for carriers to make it “easy to do good”. When following such an approach, experience shows that customers are drawn to straightforward language, demonstrations of what the industry is doing in this area, and the tangible benefits of those efforts. The most compelling stories are positive and connect with customers’ emotional needs.

As in the early days of travel advertising, airlines could reinforce the idea that the journey is the destination—that “getting there is half the fun.” By inviting customers to get involved in creating a greener future and own the solution, they could forge new partnerships and deepen loyalty.

Actual progress will be essential; organizations that talk about sustainability without demonstrating action may quickly be held to account. Simply keeping pace with trends or regulatory requirements will offer no advantages. Airlines that move boldly, such as by replacing rather than modifying a loyalty program with some kind of “planet-positive” scheme, will stand out from competitors.

The survey results and McKinsey’s work in the industry lead us to believe that the market is ready for a forward-thinking airline to chart a route to a cleaner future for the industry. Leading airlines that build a business strategy and brand promise on sustainability will likely attract a growing share of business and leisure travelers, fresh capital and talent, and new allies across the industry, government, and society at large.

In the years ahead, more customers will be willing to pay for sustainability, particularly if airlines can engage them with interesting approaches, such as gamification in frequent flyer programs, opt-out rather than opt-in offsets, “green fast lanes” for check-ins and security control, and customized emission-reduction offers. Decarbonization could become the standard to reach and maintain next-tier levels in loyalty programs. Passengers will be able to join the global decarbonization team and transform flight shame into flight pride.

Like many private flyers, corporate customers will look for ways to mitigate their CO 2 footprint. Passenger and cargo airlines could craft attractive decarbonization programs to engage the rising numbers of corporates aiming to significantly reduce their scope 3 emissions from air transport.

No single set of approaches will be effective in every geography or with every passenger segment. But airlines with a deep understanding of their customers’ changing needs and desires will continue to outperform those that don’t. Such organizations could recruit more of their passengers to the decarbonization team while protecting their brands, the future of aviation, and the planet itself.

Mishal Ahmad is a manager in McKinsey’s New Jersey office, Frederik Franz is a senior associate in the Berlin office, Tomas Nauclér is a senior partner the Stockholm office, and Daniel Riefer is an associate partner in the Munich office.

The authors would like to thank Joost Krämer for his contributions to this article.

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Do you mean you're unable to check in for that person? Yes, your only option may be to explain when you're at the airport. Expect though that you'll be asked to pay to check them in in person.

Is it only the 15 year old hoping to travel? No accompanying adult?

Thanks all. 2 on booking. 1 adult 1 teen. I can book the,adult at least and not get done for extra charge.

I assume that if I put him in as 16yr old, his passport would be twigged at airport, I know. Terrible thought!

Ryanair have their own helpdesk in luton?

--I assume that if I put him in as 16yr old, his passport would be twigged at airport--

I don't understand what you're saying here

--Ryanair have their own helpdesk in luton?--

Few airlines have a help desk. Ryanair staff will be present at Luton and can help you with your problem.

Just let the 15 year old travel as an adult unless the system giving you an error response. Why would it? I’d leave things alone.

Or have you made two separate bookings?

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This summer is shaping up to be another scorcher , and the demand for summer travel is piping hot, too. If early 2024 trends are any indication of what’s to come, “it’s looking to be busier than 2023,” said Katy Nastro, spokesperson for the flight booking site Going . Recent airport passenger volume numbers have regularly exceeded last year and pre-pandemic levels.

Jeff Klee, CEO of CheapAir.com , says airline capacity has rebounded from pandemic complications, but strong travel demand means summer flight prices can be high, depending on when you’re hoping to go. Flying in June, July or early August will be more expensive than later in the season, according to the company’s summer forecast .

“And it’s not just the airfare,” Klee said in an email. “Expensive hotel rates and crowds everywhere make Western Europe tricky for the summer.”

Despite the price tag, “people are going to go,” said Melanie Fish, the head of global public relations for all Expedia Brands, including Vrbo, Expedia and Hotels.com . “When we look at searches for destinations, they are definitely up year over year.”

For popular destinations like Europe , Klee and Fish say to push trips later into August, September or even October. Not only will prices soften, but you’ll alleviate some of the strain of overtourism .

“My number one tip is go ahead and take that summer vacation, but maybe hold on to take that big, big trip in September,” Fish said.

According to Expedia’s summer 2024 travel outlook , we’re currently in the sweet spot for shopping for early summer flights at the best rates, as Fish says lower fares tend to pop up 21 to 60 days out. It doesn’t hurt to start your search even earlier, setting up price alerts to flag when airfare drops. If you can swing it, look to fly on a Monday for international trips or a Tuesday for domestic trips to save up to 15 percent on fares, Fish added.

It’s not impossible to find good deals on airfare, whether you’re looking for a tropical beach trip , a mountain adventure or a vibrant city. Here are places that are trending cheaper — and the destinations you’ll want to avoid.

Go to Mexico

Sun, surf, culture, chilaquiles — Mexico is always a good idea , but particularly so this summer. With the opening of the new airport in Tulum , U.S. airlines have been adding gobs of new flights to Mexico, particularly to beach regions. “We’ve seen a healthy amount of deals down to Mexico resort areas like Cancún,” Nastro said.

Laura Lindsay, global travel trends expert at Skyscanner , says three Mexican cities — Cancún, San José del Cabo and Puerto Vallarta — are among the top 10 destinations offering travelers the best bang for their buck in 2024.

To escape the summer heat, Phyllis Stoller, president of the Women’s Travel Group , recommends high-altitude destinations like Mexico City or Ixtapan de la Sal, a town near Mexico City with thermal springs.

Avoid European port cities

If you’re considering a visit to a popular European city that’s also a cruise hub, beware. Not only will you be battling the usual summer crowds, you’ll be joined by thousands of day-trippers flooding into the ports — meaning Barcelona, Venice , Athens and Santorini.

Sandra Weinacht, who co-owns the tour company Inside Europe Travel Experiences , says you can avoid some of the madness in these hot spots by staying in neighborhoods away from the typical tourist zones. You can also visit top sites in the late afternoon or evening, after cruise travelers have returned to their ships.

Better yet, wait to visit until the shoulder season

Go to Colorado

Epic hiking, breathtaking nature and more craft beer than you could ever try in a lifetime: The Centennial State is a domestic gem. Ashlee Collins of Inspirato , a luxury travel and lifestyle subscription service, says Vail is popular among members this summer. Not only is the ski resort beautiful sans snow, it’s drivable for many, cutting a significant cost for travelers.

Airfare to Colorado is looking more reasonable than other domestic vacation hubs. Nastro recently spotted a Miami-to-Denver, round-trip fare over the July Fourth holiday for just $199. She says an average round trip from major U.S. cities is running between $173 and $250, but those prices are expected to climb upward of $350 the closer we get to summer.

Avoid places at risk for wildfires

Wildfires have become an unfortunate fixture of summers in the Northern Hemisphere. Last year’s fires in Europe — including those in Cyprus and Greece — were among the worst so far this century, the European Commission reported .

Stoller says fire risk has been a factor in her summer travel planning; she nixed a New England cruise after remembering how bad smoke was last year because of the fires in Canada . “None of us can predict everything, but that would be something I would be aware of,” she said.

Extreme heat is also an issue. Last July, Southern Europe experienced excessively high temperatures from a “heat dome.”

“There’s a concern about heat,” Stoller said. “Last summer was really painful.”

Go to the Caribbean

The Caribbean has its peak tourist season during the winter, when Americans flock to warmer waters. That means summer trips to the region tend to be quieter and cheaper.

“You can go under $300 to pretty much all of the islands: Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Aruba, Dominican Republic,” said Lindsay Schwimer, a consumer travel expert at Hopper . She’s seen similar price point flights to Colombia.

Lindsay of Skyscanner also said Puerto Rico and the Bahamas offer some of the most affordable flights from the United States this summer.

Avoid Paris

Unless you’re going for the Olympics , skip the French capital this summer.

“Paris is always a top destination in the summer, but this summer … it’s going to be on another level,” said Madison Pietrowski, head of U.S. brand at GetYourGuide .

Not only are hotel prices high, “we’re seeing that some of the top attractions like the Louvre have raised their ticket prices,” Pietrowski said.

Nastro says the crowds are going to be “bananas” during the Games, and not just in Paris. Olympic travelers are likely to add on other French destinations to their trip, like Nice — which will host soccer games — or the Côte d’Azur, which already gets popular in the summertime.

Even if you try to get ahead of the rush by visiting before the July 26 start date, you may still have some Olympics-related headaches in the French capital. As the city races to finish prep, “you might find that there’s going to be eyesores and scaffolding and loud noises early in the morning,” Nastro said.

Go to rural Europe

Interest in Western Europe has not slowed down, and Americans are expected to surge back en masse this summer. If you’d like to avoid them, put rural European destinations on your radar.

Weinacht is bullish on Spain’s Rioja region , the Basque countryside and the central Italian region of Umbria, which borders Tuscany but does not see the same levels of tourism. She’s also a fan of Carinthia, the least-populated state of Austria. “It is castle- and lake-dotted, doesn’t get too hot, and oh, the food and stories the cities and villages can tell,” Weinacht said in an email.

Weinacht says she’s been getting more requests from Americans for trips to her homeland, Germany. The country is easy to navigate with its high-speed trains, and offers a mix of small and big cities spread across powerhouse wine regions, UNESCO World Heritage sites and many food festivals . According to Skyscanner, airlines in the United States have been increasing their flights to Germany — namely, Frankfurt, an international business hub — meaning you may be able to find more deals.

Avoid Sicily and Amalfi

If your dream Italian destination has been featured on TV lately, that’s a red flag. The last season of “The White Lotus” spurred an interest in already popular Sicily ; the same is happening to the Amalfi Coast thanks to the new Netflix miniseries “Ripley.”

“They’re really going to be the most expensive and they’re going to be pretty crowded for the summer,” Schwimer said.

Where to go

Our favorite destinations: These 12 destinations are at the top of our wish list for where to go this year, without crowds. In 2023, we explored an Alaskan bear paradise, Brooklyn’s famous pizzerias and a hidden gem in Italy, among other highlights .

Travel like a local: Residents share their favorite places in our top city guides: New Orleans , Rome , Tokyo and Mexico City .

National parks: This comprehensive guide has details on all 63 U.S. national parks. For a deep dive into five of the most well-known, you can listen to the Field Trip podcast . Then explore tips from locals for visiting Yosemite , Glacier and Everglades .

Tales from the road: Dolly Parton has opened a new resort at her theme park complex in Tennessee, while “Fixer Upper” stars Chip and Joanna Gaines have a new hotel in Waco . Road-trippers may be just as excited to see the cartoon beaver at Buc-ee’s , and bargain-hunters should consider a stop at the Unclaimed Baggage store in Scottsboro, Ala.

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